Tranmere host Tottenham in the FA Cup on Friday night, live on talkSPORT at 19:45.As the travelling White Hart Lane faithful are about to find out, the Birkenhead club are awell supported side,with the band, Half Man Half Biscuit once refusing towork on Fridays because it would mean not seeing their beloved team play.It would brilliant if famous people who claim to support a football club actually cared about the team he/she declared their love for, wouldn’t it?Otherwise you run the risk of looking like a clown.No such accusation could be levelled at the boys from Half Man Half Biscuit.When they were asked to appear on The Tube (1982-1987), a live Friday night show, which would allow them to showcase their musical talent to millions watching on telly, they politely declined.Why? Because that’s when Rovers played their games in order to avoid clashes with neighbours Everton and Liverpool. And this was no publicity stunt, as Derek Hammond and Gary Silke explain intheir bookThe Lost World of Football.“Frontman Nigel Blackwell and bassist Neil Crossley were genuinely keener to see Tranmere play Scunthorpe United than they were to join the flirtatious Paula Yates in bed on set, or to have oily opportunist Jools Holland recommend their wares to an unsuspecting nation even after they were offered a helicopter ride back to Prenton Park.”Had they jumped in a helicopter, the band would only have got back for half-time. That wasn’t good enough – they didn’t want to miss a minute of the action.A number of HMHB songs contain football references and the country’s obsession with it and they’re good, which you cant usually say about football-related songs.‘All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague away kit’, withreferences to Subbuteo is quite possible the best Christmas song ever written.It’s not just Tranmere fans hoping for an FA Cup giant killing, either. Manager Micky Mellon can’t wait.“It’s our chance to show the world we are still here,” he said.“We disappeared off the Football League radar for a while. You can lose generations of fans and you can stop being a big football club, but certainly we have seen over the last couple of years with trips to Wembley, big occasions like this and promotion battles, that Tranmere is still here.
1No such accusation could be levelled at Birkenhead band Half Man Half Biscuit, who were an indie hit in the mid-80s with debut album Back In The DHSS. So when the boys - massive Tranmere fans - were asked to appear on The Tube (1982-1987), a live Friday night show which would showcase their talents to millions of music fans, they politely declined.
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A far more telling lyric comes from the fantastic Half Man Half Biscuit in their song which came from a mid eighties Peel session, there doesn't seem to be any room for doubt in the lyric about what they are saying and in the second four lines it alludes to some very dark stuff…
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Half Man Half Biscuit: The Tranmere fans who understand
Half Man Half Biscuit: The Tranmere fans who understand football is too important to miss Written by: fpnews Posted on: January 4, 2019 Tranmere host Tottenham in the FA Cup on Friday night, live on talkSPORT at 19:45.
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Half Man Half Biscuit: The Tranmere fans who understand
Likewise, if I wear my Dukla Prague away shirt, I may get talking to some of the most tasteful human beings alive. No, I don't mean Czech football fans, lovely though most of them surely are, but about the devotees of the world's greatest alternative rock 'n' roll outfit, the "four lads who shook the Wirral", Half Man Half Biscuit.
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A bunch of pedants chew over this and other lyrics from that Half Man Half Biscuit song. willing to miss football matches. to miss an important game to be
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This is a minority view to say the least, but those who espouse it do so with remarkable fervour. Half Man Half Biscuit, though ignored by most of Britain for most of their 30-odd year "career", have developed a hardcore band of travelling supporters who buy every record, know all the words, dress up as characters from the songs, and attend every show.
Mid 80's Half Man Half Biscuit song told the truth about
From the Tranmere Rovers Supporters Trust Website: For the few who may not have heard of them, Birkenhead band Half Man Half Biscuit came to prominence in 1985 with the issue of their first album, Back In The D.H.S.S.
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Half Man Half Biscuit Observer, 26 January 1986 'ME MAM DIDN'T KNOW I was in a band until month ago,' said Nigel Blackwell, rhythm guitarist and singer with Merseyside's Half Man Half Biscuit, teen sensations that are, as we disc-jockeys yell, sweeping the nation.
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